Bod-Inc: P-288
Picus de Mirandula, Johannes
Opera (ed. Johannes Franciscus Picus de Mirandula).
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.]
A1v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Ludovicus Maria Sfortia. Incipit: ‘Qui uirorum illustrium uitas illustrissime princeps lectionibus posterorum exaratas tradiderunt . . .’ Dated Mirandola, 1 Mar. 1496.
A2r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes Franciscus: Vita Pici. Incipit: ‘[I]oannis Pici patrui mei uitam scribere orsus . . .’ Giovanfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, Johannis Pici Mirandulae viri omni disciplinarum genere consummatissimi Vita, ed. T. Sorbelli (Modena, 1963).
A10r ‘Epitaphium Mirandulae'. Incipit: ‘Ioannes iacet hic Mirandula. Caetera norunt | Et Tagus et Ganges forsan et Antipodes'; 1 elegiac distich.
A10r Cyprianus, Thascius Caecilius [pseudo-]: De Pascha. ‘De ligno crucis carmen'. Incipit: ‘Est locus ex omni medium quem credimus orbe | Golgota Iudaei patrio cognomine dicunt'; hexameters. Chevalier, Rep. hymn., 5547.
2A1r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Heptaplus de septiformi sex dierum Geneseos enarratione [dedicated to] Laurentius Medicus. The entire volume was edited by Johannes Franciscus Picus de Mirandula. De hominis dignitate, ed. Garin, 167-383.
E4r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Deprecatoria ad Deum. Incipit: ‘Alme deus summa qui maiestate uerendus | Vere unum in triplici numine numen habes'; 31 elegiac distichs. See P‑286.
E4v Salviatus, Robertus: [Letter addressed to] Laurentius Medicus. Incipit: ‘Cum eo natus ingenio Laurenti clarissime . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 410.
F1r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Dedicatory letter addressed to] Laurentius Medicus. Incipit: ‘[A]pologiam nostram dicaui tibi . . .’
F1r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Apologia. [Introduction.] Incipit: ‘[C]um nuper Romam uenissem pedes summi pontificis Innocentii octaui . . .’ Reproduced from the 1532 edition in Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Apologia propositionum suarum, ed. José V. de Pina Martins (Lisbon, 1963).
F5r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Apologia. ‘Questio prima de descensu Christi ad inferos'. Incipit: ‘[P]rima conclusio ex propositis a me in disputatione mea quam isti damnauerunt fuit hec. Cristus non ueraliter et quantum ad realem . . . Circa istam conclusionem primo uolo declarare sensum meum . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 125-237.
N6r Alexander Vi, Pont. Max.: [Writ addressed to Johannes Picus.] Omnium catholicorum. Incipit: ‘Dilecte fili . . . omnium catholicorum quieti et famae . . .’ signed L. Podocatharus. Dated Rome, 18 June 1493.
O1r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: De ente et uno [dedicated to] Angelus Politianus. De hominis dignitate, ed. Garin, 385-441.
O6v [Cittadinus], Antonius Faventinus: Obiectiones adversus libellum de uno et ente. Incipit: ‘[S]i libellus quispiam de ente et uno inscribi mereatur . . .’ Each obiectio is followed by Johannes Picus' answer.
Q6r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes Franciscus: [Solutio obiectionum, addressed to] Antonius Cittadinus Faventinus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uanquam Ioannis Pici patrui mei obitu . . .’
S4v [Cittadinus], Antonius Faventinus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus. Incipit: ‘[I]llustri principi . . . legi missas ad me in patrui tui scripta defensiones . . .’ Dated Ferrara, 16 Dec. 1495.
S4v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Antonius Cittadinus Faventinus. Incipit: ‘Satisfactum est abunde tuis uotis . . .’ Dated Mirandola, 4 Jan. 1496.
S5v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes Franciscus: ‘Argumentum in orationem et epistolas Ioannis Pici patrui etc.’ Incipit: ‘[A]ccipe lector et has Ioannis Pici Mirandulae lucubrationes . . .’
S6r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Oratio quaedam elegantissima [de hominis dignitate]. De hominis dignitate, ed. Garin, 101-64; Pico della Mirandola, Oratio de hominis dignitate, ed. Garin.
T6v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Epistolae.]
T6v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus. Incipit: ‘In eo qui est uera salus . . .’ Dated Ferrara, 15 May 1492.
V2r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Philippus Beroaldus. Incipit: ‘[A]ccepi abs te doctissime Beroalde et epistolam . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 347.
V2r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Laurentius Medici. Incipit: ‘[L]egi Laurenti Medice rhythmos tuos . . .’ Dated Florence, 15 July 1484. Prosatori latini del Quattrocento, 796-804.
V3v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[E]go quidem mi Hermolae nec possum aut tacere . . .’ Dated Florence, 3 June 1485. Prosatori latini del Quattrocento, 804-22.
V6r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Baptista Mantuanus. Incipit: ‘[S]alue pater dilectissime, de Apollonio Thianeo nihil sentio . . .’ Dated Florence, 20 Mar. 1490. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 358-9.
V6r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Aldus Manutius. Incipit: ‘[M]itto Homerum quem desiderabas . . .’ Dated Florence, 11 Feb. 1490. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 359.
V6v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[A]udio te patriarcham Aquileiensem electum . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 359.
V6v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid esse hoc dicam mi Hermolae . . .’ Dated Florence, 31 July 1490. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 359-60.
V6v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hieronymus [Savonarola?]. Incipit: ‘[N]isi Angelus noster ad te scriberet . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 360.
V6v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uod hactenus tuis litteris non responderim . . .’ Dated Ferrara, 30 May 1492. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 360.
X1r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Marsilius Ficinus. Incipit: ‘[Q]ui ab amicis quod cupiunt pluribus contendunt . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 361.
X1r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Angelus Politianus. Incipit: ‘[N]ec Urbanius unquam . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 361-2.
X1v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Thomas Medius. Incipit: ‘[Q]uod fabellam tuam et eam festiuam . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 362-3.
X2r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Nicolaus Leonicenus. Incipit: ‘[I]am saepius et pluribus tecum per litteras collocutus fuissem . . .’ Dated Mirandola, 20 July 1482. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 363-4.
X2r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Angelus Politianus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uod proximis litteris tuis me tantopere laudaris . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 364-5.
X2v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Paulus Cortesius. Incipit: ‘[B]ene cogitas Paule . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 365-6.
X2v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Troilus Malvetius. Incipit: ‘[L]ibellus tuus de sortibus . . .’ Dated Ferrara, 29 May 1492. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 366.
X3r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Thaddaeus Ugolinus. Incipit: ‘[G]ratissimas habui litteras tuas plenas amoris . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 366.
X3r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Thomas Medius. Incipit: ‘[S]olidius nunquam me oblectatum . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 366-7.
X3r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Marsilius Ficinus. Incipit: ‘[N]on poteras opportunius Maumettem tuum latinum . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 367-8.
X3v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hieronymus Donatus. Incipit: ‘[I]am diu quae mea est negligentia . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 368.
X3v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[D]edi ad te litteras superioribus diebus . . .’ Dated Florence, 6 Dec. 1484. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 368-9.
X4r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Baptista Mantuanus. Incipit: ‘[S]alue pater optime olim ad te non scripsi . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 369.
X4r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] C. F. Incipit: ‘[Q]uaesitum diu apud me fuit tecum ne silentio . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 369-70.
X4r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Balthasar Milliavacca. Incipit: ‘[M]iraberis et quidem non iniuria responsum . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 370.
X4v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Feltrinus. Incipit: ‘[L]itterae tuae si quando alias . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 371.
X4v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hieronymus Donatus. Incipit: ‘[A]ccaepi litteras tuas et suaues profecto et eruditas . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 371.
X4v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Angelus. Incipit: ‘[C]um tenues musas meas quibus dum per aetatem . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 372.
X5r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Angelus Politianus. Incipit: ‘[C]um superioribus annis Florentiae essem . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 372-3.
X5r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Marsilius Ficinus. Incipit: ‘[M]ei semper fuit iudicii Marsili . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 373.
X5v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[N]on quod quicquam habeam te dignum . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 374.
X5v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[M]ihi nunquam aut placui magis . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 374-5.
X6r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter.] Incipit: ‘[N]ihil mihi dulcius fuit dum hic . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 375.
X6r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] F. B. C. Th. [= Baptista Mantuanus?]. Incipit: ‘[S]alue pater dilectissime en tibi Apollonium quem . . .’ Dated Florence, 13 Jan. 1490. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 375-6.
X6v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[M]emini me cum deliberarem . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 376.
X6v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Andreas Corneus Urbinas. Incipit: ‘[Q]uas proxime ad me dedisti litteras tuas . . .’ Dated Perugia, 15 Oct. 1486. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 376-9.
Y1v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus. Incipit: ‘[G]ratissimae mihi fuerunt litterae tuae. Non ob id . . .’ Dated Florence, 27 Nov. 1492. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 346-7.
Y2r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Antiquarius. Incipit: ‘[I]nter uoluptates quas cum eram Florentiae de Politiani . . .’ Dated ‘ex agro Ferrariensi', 28 June 1494. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 379-80.
Y2r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Andreas Corneus. Incipit: ‘[S]atisfactum est plane uotis meis . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 380-1.
Y2v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] R. C. C. Incipit: ‘[M]attheus noster uir officiosissimus . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 380-1.
Y2v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Alexander Cortesius. Incipit: ‘[G]ratissimae mihi fuerunt litterae tuae quas non ut putas ad ignotum ignotus . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 382.
Y3r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Dominicus Benivenius. Incipit: ‘[S]alue mi Dominice in domini sortem . . .’ Dated ‘Fratta', 10 Nov. 1486. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 382.
Y3r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Andreas Corneus. Incipit: ‘[E]t si ad te litteras dedi . . .’ Dated 1489. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 382-3.
Y3v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Baptista Guarinus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid contrahis frontem? . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 383-4.
Y3v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Antonius Picimannus [i.e. Pizamanus]. Incipit: ‘[N]ihil tota uita mihi fuit iucundius his litteris . . .’ Dated 9 July 1489. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 384.
Y3v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Ignotus amicus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uisquis es noster eris post quam Roberto Saluiato . . .’ Dated ‘Fratta', 10 Nov. 1486. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 384-6.
Y4r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus. Incipit: ‘[F]elix es fili quando non solum id tibi tribuit . . .’ Dated Ferrara, 2 July 1492. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 344-6; see Garin, La cultura filosofica, 254-66.
Z1r ‘Varia testimonia uitae doctrinae et commentationum Ioannis Pici Mirandulani variis ex locis collecta'. It includes the following letters:
Z1r Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus. Incipit: ‘[I]llustris domine. Nuper audita morte Ioannis Pici . . .’ Dated Mantua, 27 Nov. 1494. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 386-7.
Z1v Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus. Incipit: ‘[I]llustris comes Ioanne Francisce dilatio honestissima . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 387-8. Dated Mantua, 3 Jan. 1495.
Z2r Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus. Dated Milan, 1 Jan. 1487. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 388-9; E. Barbaro, Epistolae, Orationes et Carmina, ed. V. Branca, 2 vols (Florence, 1943), II 39-41 no. 124.
Z2v Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Letter addressed to] Robertus Salviatus. Dated Milan, 21 Oct. 1488. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 389-90; ed. Branca II 32-3 no. 115.
Z3r Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus. Dated Venice, 4 Sept. 1489. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 390-1; ed. Branca II 50-1 no. 133.
Z3r Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus. Dated Rome, 13 Aug. 1490. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 391; ed. Branca II 60 no. 139.
Z3r Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus. Dated Rome, 31 Mar. 1491. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 392; ed. Branca II 61-2 no. 141.
Z3v Baptista [Mantuanus]: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus. Incipit: ‘[I]llustris comes ac domine Patrui tui . . .’ Dated Mantua, 29 Oct. 1494. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 392-3.
Z3v [Bossus], Matthaeus: [Letter addressed to] Robertus Salviatus. Incipit: ‘[I]nterpraetatio sex dierum . . .’ Ex abbatia Fesulana. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 393-4.
Z4r Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Excerpt from a letter addressed to] Johannes Picus. Incipit: ‘[O] praeclare et plane diuinum ingenium tuum Pice . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 394.
Z4r Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Excerpt from a letter addressed to] Johannes Picus. Incipit: ‘[N]am cum ipse in quodam litterarum ad te mearum angulo . . .’ Dated Venice, 12 kal Oct. 1489. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 394.
Z4v Donatus, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Robertus Salviatus. Incipit: ‘[P]rouocatus sum abs te in amore . . .’ Dated Milan, 25 Oct. 1489. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 396.
Z5r Guarinus, Baptista: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus. Incipit: ‘[P]ictorius noster suo sibi celeriusculo gradu . . .’ Dated Ferrara, 1 Nov. 1489. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 396-7.
Z5r Landinus, Christophorus: [Letter addressed to] Robertus Salviatus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uam gratum quamque iucundum . . .’ Dated 22 Nov. [14?]. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 397-9.
Z6r Cortesius, Alexander: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus. Incipit: ‘[E]go in tota uita . . .’ Dated 26 Dec. [14?]. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 399-400.
Z6v Donatus, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uae meae partes esse debuerant . . .’ Dated Venice, 16 Dec. 1484. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 400-1.
Z6v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus. Incipit: ‘[C]oenaturus apud Minum Roscium . . .’ Dated Bologna, 10 Mar. 1486. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 401-2.
&1r Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Letter addressed to] Robertus Salviatus. Incipit: ‘[S]alue. Siquidem unquam summa cum uoluptate . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 403.
&1v Guarinus, Baptista: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus. Incipit: ‘[N]ondum concedo secundum te . . .’ Dated Ferrara, 5 Dec. 1489. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 403-4.
&1v Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Extract from a letter addressed to] Johannes Picus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uanquam has ipse epistolas tuas amo . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 404.
&2r Antiquarius, Jacobus: [Extract from a letter addressed to] Angelus Politianus. Incipit: ‘[N]oli igitur longi incubatus . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 405.
&2r Politianus, Angelus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus. Incipit: ‘[A]rsi pene semper . . .’ Maïer I 167.
&2r Ficinus, Marsilius: [Letter addressed to] Germanus de Ganay. Incipit: ‘[C]ertior esse uis de obitu Pici . . .’ Dated 23 Mar. 1494. Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, II 91-3.
&2v Ficinus, Marsilius: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus. Incipit: ‘[E]pistolam de obitu laudibusque Pici . . .’ Dated 1 Nov. 1495. Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, II 93.
&2v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Duodecim regulae partim excitantes partim dirigentes homines in spirituali pugna. Incipit: ‘Prima regula: si homini uidetur dura uia . . .’
&3v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Duodecim arma spiritualis pugnae quae in promptu haberi debent cum peccandi libido mentem subdit. Incipit: ‘Voluptas breuis et exigua . . .’
&3v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Duodecim conditiones amantis. Incipit: ‘Amare unum tantum et contemnere omnia pro eo . . .’
&5v Ugolinus, Baccius: [Letter addressed to] Robertus Salviatus. Incipit: ‘[M]erito te Roberte docti diligunt . . .’ Dated Naples, 26 Mar. 1490. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 407-8.
&6r Maius, Junianus: [Letter addressed to] Robertus Salviatus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uod Ioannis Pici Mirandulae diuinum opus . . .’ Dated Naples, 4 June 1490. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 408-9.
&6r Politianus, Angelus: [Extracts from Miscellanea.] Incipit: ‘De isto enim prae cunctis admirando non Pico iam . . . cedite Grai last few lines of the preface]; Ut idem et comparit et ostendit Ioannes . . . fideliter existimemus [from cap. 14]. Qualis est item Ioannes Picus hic meus . . . fastigium accipiet [from cap. 90]. Percurrimus aliquando . . . possit impietas [from cap. 94]'. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 409; Maïer I 217, 238, 301, 305.
&6v [Trithemius], Johannes: [Extract from ‘De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis'.] Incipit: ‘Ioannes Picus natione italus . . .’ Explicit: non indignae sempiternam reddidit Johannes Trithemius, De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis (Cologne, 1546), 383; ed. G. A. Fabricius, Bibliotheca ecclesiatica (Hamburg, 1718), no. CMXIX; Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 409-10.
&6v Savonarola, Hieronymus: [Extract from ‘Compendium revelationum']. Incipit: ‘Comes Ioannes Mirandulanus uir temporibus nostris ingenio et multiplici doctrina singularis.’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 410; G. Savonarola, Compendio di rivelazioni (testo latino e testo volgare) e Dialogus de veritate prophetica, ed. A. Crucitti (Rome, 1974), 137 (lines 5-6).
&6v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Extract from second commentary in Propertium super illo uersu: non tot Achemeniis etcetera.] Incipit: ‘Susa pro Hetrusca . . .’ Explicit: esse non ethrusca etc. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 410.
&6v [Colophon.]
a1r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem. Pico della Mirandola, Disputationes, ed. Garin, I–II.
t4v [Colophon.]
u1r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem. ‘Prooemium'. Pico della Mirandola, Disputationes, ed. Garin, I 36-46.
u2v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Oliverius Carafa, Cardinal of Naples. Dated Mirandola, 28 June [14?]. Pico della Mirandola, Disputationes, ed. Garin, I 25-26.
u3r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] ‘ueritatis amatoribus'. Pico della Mirandola, Disputationes, ed. Garin, I 27-8.
u3v ‘Tabula'.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus, 1498. Folio.
Remarks: Mostly a reprint of H *12992 (Bod-inc. P‑286), with variants, for which see BMC. In two parts, dated: (I) 9 Oct. 1498; (II) 14 Aug. 1498.
Collation
Collation: Part I: A10 2A–B6 C–E4 F–Q6 R4 S–X6 Y4 Z &6; part II: a–s6 t4 u6.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials and a diagram.
References
ISTC: ip00634000
Hain: HC *12993;
Goff: Goff P‑634;
BMC: BMC V 548;
Proctor: Pr 5526;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑481; CIBN P‑345; Rhodes 1402; Sack, Freiburg, 2872-3; Sheppard 4587-8; Valenziani, ‘Les incunables de Pic de la Mirandole', 335.
LCN: 14488905
Copies
Copy number: P-288(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century marbled paper boards, with yellow-edged leaves. Two parchment index tabs.
Size: 310 × 220 × 40 mm.
Size of leaf: 305 × 203 mm.
Provenance: Purchased for £1. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1859), 84.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 3.12.
Copy number: P-288(2)
Binding: Seventeenth-century blind-tooled (fillets only) reversed calf, with remains of ties. Sprinkled red-edged leaves. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of upper cover.
Size: 303 × 215 × 45 mm.
Size of leaf: 298 × 193 mm.
Occasional marginal notes, extracting key words, and some underlining in an early hand.
Provenance: Bartholomaeus Greneus (fl. 1560); inscription on A1r: ‘Bartholo. Greneus(?) me possidet. pretium 2 a.1560 14 Martij'. Acquired by 1605; see James, Catalogus (1605), 349 (with date ‘1496').
Former Bodleian shelfmarks: M. 3.11 Art; G 4.17 Art (`17' painted in white at head of the spine and in black across the fore-edge).
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 3.22.
Copy number: P-288(3)
Part II bound after A10. Not in Sheppard.
Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with remains of two clasps. Manuscript title across the head of the fore-edge and along the lower edge. Triple fillets form a double frame. Within the outer frame a ‘Maria hilf(?)' scroll and a small circular floral stamp. Diagonal triple fillets divide the inner rectangle into lozenge-shaped and triangular compartments, decorated with a different ‘Maria' scroll, a tendril, and a floral stamp.
Size: 325 × 215 × 55 mm.
Size of leaf: 312 × 205 mm.
Strips from a twelfth-century noted liturgical manuscript, used in the binding, are still visible.
A manuscript diagram with the position of the planets on t2v. On front pastedown a rectangular label with an eighteenth/nineteenth-century shelfmark: ‘C. | 10.C.15.’
Some initials, paragraph marks and chapter heading underlining are supplied in red; rubricator's date on E3v: 1503.
Provenance: Printed armorial book-label with the following unidentified coat of arms (without tincture): per fess, in chief a demi-lion, in base the sun in glory, all surmounted by a helm, mantling, and the crest: the sun in glory between two estoiles, all within spread wings. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 2514. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. F 3.3.
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